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course of negotiations, 127-133; signs treaty of December 31, 1806, 133; remains as minister, after Monroe's return, 135; quoted in connection with mission, 146, 177, 215, 216, 218, 219, 230, 238, 241, 251; party relations, 169; early forwards a copy of Orders in Council of November 11, 1807, 179 (note); letter of Secretary of State to, communicating dismissal of Jackson by U.S. Government, 226-228; communicates the same to the British Government, 230; construes Champagny's letter to revoke French Decrees, and demands recall of British Orders in Council, 238; letter to British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, analyzing and condemning system of Orders in Council, 245; conditional instructions to, to present recall, 250; dilatory course of Wellesley towards, 251; presents recall, 252; returns to the United States, 252; no successor to, till after the war, 252.

_Pitt, William._ Prime Minister of Great Britain. Popularity of, i. 1; as Chancellor of Exchequer, 1783, introduces bill favorable to United States, for regulating commerce, 58; controversy over bill, 60; measure then dropped, 67, 68; concession becomes possible to, 87, 97; return to power, in 1804, 100; new measures of, due to popular discontents, 101-104; remark to Gouverneur Morris, concerning impressment difficulties, 120; death of, 104.

_Porter, David._ Captain, U.S.N. Commands frigate "Essex," i. 407; ii. 1-3, 13; cruise of "Essex," in Pacific, ii. 244-247; action with, and capture by, "Phoebe" and "Cherub," 249-252; approves of commerce destroying by naval armed schooners, appointed to command a squadron of them, and draws up plan of operations, 270; engaged in harassing retreat of British frigates in Potomac, 350.

_Porter, Peter B._ Representative in Congress from New York, and general of New York militia. Testimony at trial of General Hull, i. 340; duel with General Smyth, 358; tribute to gallantry of naval detachment at Niagara, 315; engaged at Chippewa, ii. 295, on Niagara peninsula, 306, and Lundy's Lane, 310.

"_President._" American frigate. Rencounter with British sloop of war "Little Belt," i. 256-259; cruises under command of Commodore Rodgers, i. 322-324, 407-409;